17 Senior Field Officers - IPA BRIDGES Project

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
BRIDGES PROJECT
VACANT POSITIONS: Senior Field Officers (17 Positions)
REPORTING TO: Field Manager
START DATE: May 2026
LOCATION: Busia, Bungoma, Embu, Kitui, Muranga, Siaya, Tharaka Nithi & Trans Nzoia counties.
DURATION: 1 Month
DEADLINE: Rolling Base
ELIGIBILITY: Position open to local Kenyan Candidates only
About Innovations for Poverty Action: Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a research and policy nonprofit that discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA brings together researchers and decision-makers to design, rigorously evaluate, and refine these solutions and their applications, ensuring that the evidence created is used to improve the lives of the world’s poor.
In recent decades, trillions of dollars have been spent on programs designed to reduce global poverty, but clear evidence on which programs succeed is rare, and when evidence does exist, decision-makers often do not know about it. IPA exists to bring together leading researchers and these decision-makers to ensure that the evidence we create leads to tangible impact on the world.
Since its founding in 2002, IPA has worked with over 600 leading academics to conduct over 830 evaluations in 52 countries. This research has informed hundreds of successful programs that now impact millions of individuals worldwide.
About the Project: This research project is a quasi-experiment evaluation of how Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization (SACCO) membership (under the One Million Farmer Platform) can improve rural women’s economic empowerment in Kenya.
The study aims to assess the impact of SACCO and FPO membership on rural women’s economic empowerment in Kenya. Specifically, the study will help us understand if women in SACCOs and FPOs have improved farm productivity, income, consumption, and empowerment outcomes.
This study will be conducted in Busia, Bungoma, Siaya, Trans Nzoia, Muranga, Embu, Tharaka Nithi, Kitui.
About the Position: The Senior Field Officer under the general supervision of the Field Manager and within the limits of Innovations for Poverty Action-Kenya policies will primarily be responsible for field staff supervision and field data quality audits.
Below is a list of some of the general duties and responsibilities of the Senior Field Officer to be carried out as needed according to the determination of the Field managers and Research Associate.
Duties and Responsibilities

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• Organization and coordination of field activities. These will include meetings with local leaders, SACCO leadership and project partners and being in the field to supervise field activities.
  
• Lead a team of Field officers in the respective county assigned.
  
• Tracking of surveys administered in the field using survey CTO and generating a daily and a weekly report that shows the progress.
  
• Tracking appointments and any other occurrence in the field and following up on that appropriately and where necessary consulting with their supervisors.
  
• Tracking of project expenses i.e. Airtime, Local travel rates and any allowances given in the field.
  
• Organize materials in readiness for field work and for data processing and organizing data collected from the field.
  
• Take lead in performing back checks and spot-checks and or any other duty that pertains to data quality
  
• Conducting surveys from time to time.
  
• Any other duty as assigned by the FM.
  

Qualifications and Experience

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• Diploma and above in social sciences or related fields with at least 1 year experience in data collection and management.
  
• Excellent verbal communication skills with fluency in the local languages spoken in the study areas.
  
• Experience in data collection and data management.
  
• Skills to interact with study partners and farmers and to engage farmers in data collection where possible.
  
• Ability to work independently in a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, and multi-cultural environment.
  
• Capability to exercise honesty, trustworthiness, and high integrity.
  
• Ability to stay and work comfortably in the specific study counties during the data collection exercise.
  
• (Added advantage to candidates who can work/fit in multiple counties).
  
• Excellent organizational skills.
  
• Preferred: Candidates who are from the working counties listed above and are conversant with local languages i.e Luo, Luhya, Iteso, Samia, Kamba, Kalenjin, Kikuyu, Embu, Tharaka and Meru are strongly preferred. (No accommodation offered).
  

How to Apply
Please CLICK HERE to apply online.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.
DISCLAIMER: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by the Senior Field Officer - Bridges Project. The statements are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all possible duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Management reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary. Please note that IPA will never request any form of payment from an applicant. Applicants are encouraged to confirm the information listed above with IPA.
Please contact us at jobs-kenya@poverty-action.org if you have any questions or concerns.